![]() ![]() ![]() Penelope dreams of her husband and eldest son's adventures, and with revolution in the air, the questions become, will life get better under a new regime and will she see her loved ones again? At its best, the novel reads like a send up of The Road by a young Kurt Vonnegut, but these moments are few, with Tanner decreasingly interested in imparting significance to the frantic comic absurdities that pile up with alarming speed. After Penelope slaps the Metal Man for trying to take her oven racks to melt down into munitions, the family goes on the run, seeking refuge in a landfill, surviving as scavengers, and dodging cannibals. Kiss me again, stranger a collection of eight stories, long and short. Eight spellbinding tales of suspense, mystery and romance from. Heroine Penelope has 14 children, and her husband and oldest son are away serving in the military, leaving her to contend with regular visits from a grumpy government scrap metal collector. Buy a cheap copy of Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of. Meanwhile, Tim has taken a young woman hes obsessed with on a picnic in the country. She calls police after discovering a knife in his room. Thompson rents a room to a secretive young Tim Matthews and is convinced hes the murderer. Tanner's scrappy debut plunges readers into a hyperactive, nonsensical alternate universe in which a family's life is made hell by a government gone nuts. A serial killer is on the loose in 1946 London with five victims so far. ![]()
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